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TRS

Don't ask me why, but on of the online media outlets in New Zealand is asking readers to vote on the scariest thing that could happen to you in space... some of the answers may surprise you!

GoesTo11

Well, my first objection would be to sharing a "ride" on Soyuz/ISS with a paying Kardashian.

Something else would be the "Kessler Effect," which I understand is key to the premise of the new movie "Gravity."

Grounded!

Spaghettification comes to mind. I hate that when that happens.

garymilgrom

Excess citrus beverages?

cspg

Almost all suggested answers by the poll inevitably lead to death. Is death scary?

But I'll answer: Travelling there in the first place.

dabolton

Being told it was time to come home.

Finding a guest passenger inquiring about how to open the hatch.

GoesTo11

quote:Originally posted by dabolton:Finding a guest passenger inquiring about how to open the hatch.

Are you referencing Mike Mullane's memoir? According to him, that was a real issue with one of the early shuttle payload specialist "passengers."

dabolton

Yes. Quite a scary REAL moment that happened.

bwhite1976

Finally getting my Apollo flight to the moon, and halfway there a kid stowaway pops out of one of the access panels and screws up the weight of my spacecraft.

p51

I think the scariest thing that could happen would be something so far away that would kill you very slowly but no way to fix it. Like being stranded on the lunar surface with no hope of ever getting out of there, or bouncing off the atmosphere on re-entry into deep space. You'd know not only you weren't going to get home, but that your family would forever wonder where your body was.

THEN you'd have to decide on if you were going to go with as long as the O2 lasts, or do what Jim Lovell said in his book, how he suggested that if they weren't getting back they probably pop the hatch and go out as fast as they could. But even then, dying in open space isn't likely quick as it's shown in fiction, either.

For that matter, being on STS-107, on the flight deck, and if you knew in advance what was coming. Man, I can't think of much worse than that.

quote:Originally posted by GoesTo11:According to him, that was a real issue with one of the early shuttle payload specialist "passengers."

Could someone e-mail me offline as to who this was? I have always wondered who he was referring to.

Robert Pearlman

quote:Originally posted by p51:I have always wondered who he was referring to.